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The Négraille’s Testament:
Translating Black-Label

Gyssels Kathleen and Christine Pagnoulle

Damas

Black-Label, Léon-Gontran Damas’s book-length poem published in 1956, is a text that begs for translation because of its sheer literary power, its long-lasting topicality and not least because of the comparative neglect affecting one of the three founders of the Négritude movement. Damas was the ‘rasta’ of the Négritude movement, the most radically opposed to systems, schools and exclusions of any kind. He was corresponding with writers such as John LaRose or Andrew Salkey, and dreamt, half a century before Glissant, of anthologies of the African diaspora beyond linguistic, geographical and colour demarcations.

 

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